Rhys Roser has now been jailed for seven years and eight months for the horrific rape of a 19-year-old woman

A teenager managed to record her own horrific rape – audio footage that would eventually send her attacker to jail for more than seven years.

Rhys Roser, 24, raped the 19-year-old in the bathroom of his flat in Maida Vale, despite her repeatedly pleading with him to ‘leave me alone’.

As he began making unwanted advances on her, the young woman managed to grab her phone and switch on audio recording – which ended up capturing her terrified refusals, the rape, and him warning her ‘don’t fucking tell anyone’.

‘He made it plain he wanted to have sex and she didn’t,’ prosecutor Peter Clement told Harrow Crown Court. ‘The defendant became more demanding and somewhat bullying of her. He grabbed her by the arm, torso and neck, and the more aggressive he became the more aroused he got.’

The recording revealed Roser telling his victim that he had a ‘free pass’ to have sex with her – at which point she was in tears, pleading with him to ‘shut up and leave her alone’.

She then locked herself in the bathroom, but Roser persuaded his way in.

Clement continued: ‘He locked the bathroom door and pushed her into the shower. He pulled her head back and bent her left arm behind her back.’

Jurors heard that the teenager was then raped.

Roser has been jailed at Harrow Crown Court after his victim’s phone recorded him raping her, then pressuring her to keep quiet (Picture: REX/Shutterstock)

When they returned to the bedroom, the phone – which was still on – recorded Roser trying to pressure his victim into keeping quiet.

‘I was wrong in every way,’ he was heard saying on the audio. ‘I shouldn’t have done that. I don’t know what came over me.

‘Don’t tell anyone please. You don’t want to do the whole court thing. You’re not going to stand up in court and tell everyone you were raped – way too embarrassing.

‘You were kinda sexy because you had wetness on your face. That’s the one thing that’s going to ruin my life. Don’t fucking tell anyone, it’s real simple.’

In an impact statement written 15 months after the rape, Roser’s victim said it had ‘had a staggering effect on me’ – adding that she suffered from depression, anxiety, insomnia, flashbacks and night terrors as a result.

Jailing him for seven years and eight months, Recorder Matthew Lowe told Roser: ‘You were heard saying that you had gone mad and were wrong in every way, and went on to plead with her not to report what happened and put pressure on her.

‘She describes it as emotional blackmail. What you did to her that night has had significant psychological and emotional effects.’